Overview
Address
306 Abbott St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Gastown
type
Commercial
Protection & Recognition
- M: Municipal Protection
Description
The Dougall House is a three-storey, late Victorian commercial and residential building built in 1890. The architect was R. Mackay Fripp. The building was constructed of masonry with stone detailed. It signified the permanence of fire-resistant building materials and heralded confidence in the rebuilt (post 1886 fire) city.
On the ground floor was commercial space. A significant tenant was Dr. W.J. McGuigan, physician and coroner who kept offices in the building between 1893-1909. He became Vancouver mayor in 1904.
On the upper floors there was lodging. The Dougall House catered to the commercial traveller and tourist, billing the establishment as “a new building with all appliances for safety, comfort, and luxury of tourists and travellers.” Around 1890, rooms catered to the population of loggers, cannery workers and fishermen, which indicates that the fashionable trade had left this part of Gastown.
Source
Canada's Historic Places
More information
http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2804
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